pilot1009

I have to say that the preenter of this 3 part sreies was IMO very annoying and came across as a simpering Royalist. Thankfully some of the other opinions a least adde dsome perspective. If you knew nothing of this period and events, after watching thsi you would think Charles 1 was a sadly misunderstood and hard done by King. He was a tyrant and arrogant beyond measure, if he had not been there would not have been a civil war at all. This series quietly ignored all this and portayed him simpathetically and the parlimentarians as hard and underhanded, forgetting that they had just fought a war to remove this King. I doubt that if Charles had won that he would have given any of the parliamentrian any trial at all.

Not too good acting but passable but the story gets dragged out and much is not relevant. Ther is not real time line so you really don't get a sense of prgression of the character which is not very well defined. CGI is poor and my own pet hate is if you re going to use CGI at least get the aircraft models right. The BF109s were Buchons aka battle of britain 1969 and the supposed spitfires were all over the place and non had cannons during the battle. I know this is pedantic but it just is sloppy if you are doing it with CGI. I really am annoyed by the insistence of IMDB to have reviews over 600 chars - puts me off reveiwing.